Motorola Xoom to Cost $799 at Best Buy

Best Buy will sell the Motorola Xoom iPad challenger tablet Feb. 24 for $799. This is consistent with pricing leaked earlier from Verizon Wireless.

Best Buy is selling the Motorola Xoom Android 3.0 tablet computer for $799
on Feb. 24, according to an ad shot scored by Engadget.
The report comes two weeks after Android Central reported the minimum price for the Xoom, which Motorola
hopes will be the first Android tablet to successfully challenge Apple's iPad,
from Verizon Wireless would be $799 sans contract. See the Xoom portal on
Motorola here.

Powered by the Nvidia Tegra 2 dual-core processor and sporting a 10.1-inch
screen, the Xoom has the freshest Android build, which is optimized for
tablets.

The tablet supports several 3D capabilities, including the Google Maps 5.0
application for Android, where buildings rise as users tilt the Xoom.
Google showed off these capabilities during Verizon's keynote at the 2011 Consumer
Electronics Show Jan. 6 to some applause.
The front-facing, 2-megapixel camera enables video chats over WiFi or 3G/4G
LTE, while the back-facing camera is 5 megapixels and captures video in 720p
HD.
Verizon will initially support the Xoom, which is also WiFi-equipped, with
its 3G network. However, the Xoom will be 4G-ready when the carrier is ready to
expand its 4G LTE coverage beyond its current 38 markets in the second quarter.
The Xoom received a bump Feb. 2 at Google's Honeycomb demo event at the
Googleplex in Mountain View, Calif.,
where Google also unveiled the Android Market Webstore.
The Xoom arguably got a bigger bump during the Super Bowl Feb. 6, where
Motorola aired its "Empower the People" ad mocking Apple's
"1984" ad that portrayed IBM as a
producer of cookie-cutter computers.
In this spot, a man woos a dronelike woman "enslaved" by Apple and
its omnipresent white earbuds by buying flowers on his Xoom for her. Check it
out here.